I've read most of William Gibson's stuff; I know what I'm doing and how I'm failing to do it: connect with other humans. Even the little twentysomething smarty pants that could easily be spoofing your I.P. address (or God knows who) and reading in real time every written utterance that touches your keypad - it's probably happening to them and you and me and all of us right now... Am I being paranoid? *hmmmm...* But am I being unreasonably paranoid is the real question.

Recently there was a serious hack at twitter. Possibly some super spider/worm/bot is doing it's magic right now spoofing all of us in real time - cloud computing. And you say none of this is being archived? Well not in any meaningful way to us. But processor power is only getting exponential and one can take this thought and see it through to its strange and scary conclusion - at least we humans have a right and left side to our brains.

Yeah, get off that computer and go take your kids to the park. Just be really careful walking around and crossing the streets. We use to worry about drivers and their cell telephones while putting on their lipstick, now it's multitasking overdrive.

...Especially the men.

An anacephalic baby... Or something worse. If a cub or kitten has no chance for survival the mother cat will put it down.

To be pro-choice is truly to be pro-life.

And I bet most pro-lifers are the first one's to hue 'n cry about all those welfare mother's. A moral preocupation is not necessarily the moral high-ground.

At least in my opinion... But I'm finding I just can't read you anymore (except for an occasional skim) lest I go insane with with my own sense of powerlessness and the inertia it causes. I fear you're going to get a severe case of colitis bangin' away at that keyboard of your's - it amazes me to no end how you can actually write perfectly grammatical sentences as fast as you think. AMAZING!!!

We all know that someone like Condoleezza Rice lives in a thought vacuume, but where was Colin Powell? Someone like Condi Rice will go to the grave convinced she was doing the right thing; as Madelene Albright's father said, "she got lost in the performance" - she will never see any part she played in all the maimed and dead solders who's lives, and their families lives, she was instrumental in destroying. But Colin Powell and many others will be looking into the mirror and as time moves on the weight of their silence during the Bush years is going to hang heavy on them. I don't envy them.

Mr Greenwald I think your wonderful. You have a perfectly polemical mind that you use in the name of justice and goodness in a world that doesn't have much of either. My advice to you is: don't let it drive you nuts. Your posts and your updates seem to get longer and longer and longer... Try for pithy, short and sweet, or I fear at some point you will start losing readers; and that would be a bad thing.

P.S. You forgot one great quote: Lord Acton's "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". This applies to political leaders as well as journalists who are supposed to keep them honest.

P.S.S.: Try to be pithy!!!

It's not just the ugliness of HIV discrimination and the resulting alienation this produces, as horrendous as that is. It's the rapes, violence and all the complicity of the wardens and guards and other prison staff; it's the racketeering and active gang mobsterism that tentacles out into the world outside of prisons.

IT'S A GIANT MESS!! And we pay for it in our neighborhoods and communities with even more crime.

I know this sounds fascist, but it's time we install full video cam surveillance inside these hell-holes for both the prisoners and prison staff. Then and only then will we ever be able to call prisons places that rehabilitate people. And of course, the ones that are incurably violent and homicidal we can just warehouse; forever if need be.

And don't get me on the subject of the total immorality of the death penalty... Even Mom said that two wrongs don't make a right. Right?

Cheney: "They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions."

Sir, I concur 100%. It is you and YOUR (since is was yours) entire administration that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Let's burn all history books and history too. That's so great!! I say screw soylent green. We'll just become a bunch of nodes living in the noosphere/datasphere being fed shit thinking it's See's candies - Techno-coprophagia wet dream. THAT'S REALLY WONDERFUL!!

Content from “historical” news to real-time events without any memory of it; collective or otherwise. A true utopia is where the concept of dystopia does not exist.

It just couldn't get any better than that, me no thinks.

Fighting to good fight means calling the right wing on every bit of tackiness they accuse the left wing of indulging in; even though censure is a pretty meaningless exercise.

I really had high hopes for reform under an Obama administration on so many different fronts, but he seems to backing down on everything; healthcare, global warming... Everything! Things were so profoundly depressing under the Bush administration, but to see victory not so much snatched from the jaws victory as to witness victory being slowly bled to death by a thousand ticks.

Depressing.

I meant victory snatch from the jaws of defeat. That's how depressing I find everything now.